file Command Output

> file /usr/bin/znew
/usr/bin/znew: Bourne shell script text executable

> file -i /usr/bin/znew
/usr/bin/znew: application/x-sh


> file /usr/bin/mcopy
/usr/bin/mcopy: symbolic link to mtools


> file /usr/bin/zip
/usr/bin/zip: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped


> file -z -b tbs-2.1.16.tar.gz
POSIX tar archive (gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969, max compression, os: Unix)